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By that, I mean, has anyone gotten a WB, UPN or independent station in HD added to their channel list? I heard a rumor that D* was beginning to add some other locals to some of the HD local markets.

Here in Connecticut, we just had HD MPEG4 locals on Wednesday, however we only get WVIT (NBC) and WFSB (CBS). We do not have WTIC (FOX) or WTNH (ABC). Tribune Company owns our FOX affiliate as well as our WB affiliate. They will only make an agreement with DirecTV that includes BOTH the FOX and WB channels, they do this with all cable companies too. Our local ABC affiliate is also owned by the same company (LIN Television) that owns our local UPN affiliate. I have a feeling they are trying to get a similar agreement to carry both channels. So we'll see if DirecTV acts on this in my area, at least, to get FOX and ABC live for us.

There are so many markets that DirecTV needs to provide the basic 4 to first. Indianapolis does finally have 1 more station along with WRTV (ABC) with WTHR (NBC) in HD. There for a while, I was wondering why DirecTV even launched Indy with ONE channel.

I hope that will soon to be the case here in Cleveland too as our local UPN is owned by our CBS affiliate (Both Raycom owned) neither have made it onto the local HD lineup yet here.

Dan Sholtis
"The Raiders will be back. I have unshakable confidence, the will to win, and I just know that the fire that burns brightest in this building is the will to win. And we will win. We will win."---Al Davis. Rest In Peace, Al